FLFR3900 - Private Lives and Public
Places in Early Modern
Dr.
Giovanna Summerfield
Office:
6018
Phone/Voice Mail 334.844.6359
E-mail: summegi@auburn.edu
Web
site: http://www.auburn.edu/~summegi
Course Description:
This
course is offered in combination with HIST3610, taught by History Professor
Donna Bohanan. Through the original texts of the time
and the works of modern critics, this course underscores the cultural
circumstances of early modern
Course Objectives:
In
this course students will increase their abilities to communicate in French
within their professional field and will understand a variety of topics from a
different perspective in order to be better prepared for the demands and
opportunities of our global society. Students are expected to discuss the
historical significance of early modern
Course Requirements:
Due
to the nature of the course, attendance is required.
After four absences, regardless of the reason for the absence and of academic
performance in the class, the student will receive an FA (Failure due to Excessive
Absences). Late work will ONLY be accepted if turned in with official medical
excuse. NOTE: One tardy or early departure is counted as half an absence.
If students foresee regular conflicts with class attendance due to
participation in official university sports activities, they must turn in, at
the beginning of the term, a copy of the official calendar of events. Students
are required to have an intermediate proficiency in French (at least completion
of FLFR2010). Students are expected to be well-prepared and engaged in class
discussions; they are expected to turn in their personal notes prior to each
discussion.
Grades
will be determined as follows:
Discussion Participation 40%
Final Paper or Presentation 20%
A schedule of final presentations will be
available when time approaches.
Special Accommodations:
Students
who need special accommodations have to make an appointment with the instructor
to present the memo received from the Program for Students with Disabilities
(PSD) and to discuss their situation confidentially. If students do not have a
memo, they should arrange an appointment with a member of the professional
staff in the PSD Office in 1244
Discussion
Schedule:
AUG
22: Introduction
AUG
29: Selections from Le Play's Principes de la paix
sociale. Famille and Louis Terreaux's Culture et pouvoir
SEPT
12: Selections from d'Aubigné's Tragiques
SEPT
19: Selections from Voltaire's Traité sur la tolérance
(L'affaire Calas) and Candide
SEPT
26: Selections from D'Aulnoy's Contes and Danielle
Haase-Dubosc's Ravie et enlevée
OCT 3: Selections from Molière's
and Beaumarchais's chosen play(s)
OCT
10: Selections from Rabelais's Gargantua; Bakhtin et le carnevalesque
OCT
17: Fêtes foraines (Yale Website) et révolutionnaires (M.
Ozouf's La fête révolutionnaire)
OCT
24: Selections from Michel Foucault's Surveiller et Punir
OCT
31: Selected texts - Le
diable au XVI, XVII et XVIII siècle
NOV
7: Ridicule (Film 1996)
NOV
14: Musées et collections - l'Encyclopédie et le
Louvre (web)
NOV 28: Denon's Altichiaro
– Presentations*
DEC 5: Presentations*